This week marks the 50th anniversary of the technology that changed computing forever and remains at the heart of business, science, government and academia today: the mainframe computer. From ...

For decades, technology has provided our world with great innovation. Whilst rapid change in our industry is nothing new, we are currently witnessing an unprecedented phenomenon as four technologies – ...

A project that enables today's digital generation to understand computer interfaces used by 1940s programmers, and salutes the key role played by that decade’s female technicians, has won the 2016 ...

Developed over 30 years ago, mainframe applications have now been updated with new code, making them extremely complex to understand. While experienced mainframe developers are familiar with these ...

I am asked daily how my company can help our customers to find and train young people to overcome a staffing issue that is now recognised by most companies (Act now to avoid mainframe skills gap). The ...

Spare a thought for American Stewart Alsop Jr who, despite a sterling career in IT journalism, will forever be remembered for this quote: 'I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on 15 ...

The comedy blog Slackstory published "An Ode to Movie Mainframes" this week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with "hacking the mainframe." Movies most often use the phrase to mean that "the ...

IBM is in court this week in a bid to shutdown an IBM-compatible cloud service that, it claims, infringes on its own mainframe intellectual property. IBM argues that Zurich, Switzerland-based LzLabs ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

Lets time travel, back to the 1960s, huge mainframe computers humming in air conditioned rooms and their reels spinning like mechanical ...